[Rezension von: Scott, Rachel M., Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making]

In Recasting Islamic Law, Rachel M. Scott draws from a rich body of literature, including classical Islamic texts, to show “the relationship of the religious to the political” in Egyptian constitutionalism (p. 2). Venturing into both historical and contemporary debates on sharia and its relationship...

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Main Author: Virgili, Tommaso (Author)
Contributors: Scott, Rachel M. (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2023
In: A journal of church and state
Year: 2023, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 273-275
Review of:Recasting Islamic law (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021) (Virgili, Tommaso)
Recasting Islamic law (Ithaca (New York) : Cornell University Press, 2021) (Virgili, Tommaso)
Recasting Islamic law (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021) (Virgili, Tommaso)
Recasting Islamic law (Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2021) (Virgili, Tommaso)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Islamic law / Egypt
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
XA Law
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:In Recasting Islamic Law, Rachel M. Scott draws from a rich body of literature, including classical Islamic texts, to show “the relationship of the religious to the political” in Egyptian constitutionalism (p. 2). Venturing into both historical and contemporary debates on sharia and its relationship to state law, the book shows how norms deriving from pre-modern Islam have been given a different form to fulfill the needs of a modern state. When it comes specifically to the Egyptian Constitution, Islamic legal norms are recast as part of national culture and identity, thus serving not only a religious purpose but also a civic one, as the glue of the national fabric. This dynamic also emerges from the case studies of women’s and non-Muslims’ constitutional rights. In the author’s view, the redefinition of sharia is common to both non-Islamist and Islamist forces, and this makes the traditional polarization between them an inadequate lens to assess the Egyptian constitution making ...
ISSN:2040-4867
Contains:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csad006